Roger L. Nichols | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Borderlander: The Life of James Kirker, 1793–1852. By Ralph Adam Smith. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. x, 326 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-8061-3041-5.)

Since the mid-1980s, students of white-Indian relations in the Southwest have increasingly considered the roles played by native peoples in the region. This examination of the life of James Kirker by Ralph Adam Smith fits squarely into that context. A career study rather than a biography, it focuses on the changing relationships between Apaches, Comanches, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans in west Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Chihuahua, and Sonora prior to 1850. That era saw the collapse of Spanish authority over the regions of northern Mexico and what is now the Southwest of the United States. Mexican independence from Spain after 1821 brought some modest changes but little real control over the northern border regions, and the long-term conflicts between raiding groups of Apaches from New Mexico and Comanches from Texas kept the frontier in turmoil for several generations. . . .

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